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/drˈəmstɪk/ Listen

noun

Drumstick n.

A stick with which a drum is beaten.

Anything resembling a drumstick in form; applied especially to the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl, when cooked and served at the table.

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Etymology of 'Drumstick'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drumstick" Quotes from Famous Books

... that the episode rankled in the blunderers after they had elected their pride President. He must have felt like the gentleman at the inn dining-room who, falling asleep at his meal, had the fowl consumed by some merry wags; then greasing his lips with the drumstick, they left him before the carcass so that the host naturally charged him ...

— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams

... more like a subterranean cave than anything else; they were dancing English dances, and the music here was a degree better, as a drum was played by one of the violinists! [This might be effected by the violin player having the drumstick tied to his right foot, ...

— Haydn • J. Cuthbert Hadden

... bird-like voice, unaccompanied by any music. For three hours the child sang, acted, and danced in the suffocating stable, lighted by two petroleum lamps. The next day I saw Mignon sitting on one of the shafts of the caravan and gnawing the 'drumstick' of a fowl. The child-actress was the prop of her mother and the donkey; her talent also kept the youth, who began to agitate the nerves of Beynac with his diabolical rataplan ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... Sampson. Let me help you to a scrap of cold chicken. What? Drumstick! Miss Faithie—here is a woman who makes it a principle to go through the world, choosing drumsticks! She's a study; and I set you to ...

— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... snare-drum; base-drum; kettle-drum; tabor, taborine. Associated Words: reveille, rappel, chamade, ruff, tattoo, ruffle, roll, rataplan, drummer, drumhead, drumstick. ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

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